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. >> he tried a little bit until south carolina. it wasn't just the debate. the pathologies of the debate played out through the campaign. so you had senate seats in missouri and indiana that fell to the democrats in part because of republican flubs. we have to go to that core question. what is the democratic party now? is it a party that simply does well when the republicans do badly? is it simply an alternative to the republicans? or is there a there there? that's something that barack obama is going to have to do a lot of defining in, and it will start in the inaugural speech. >> mayor, looking beyond the president, identify a face or faces within the party that you think best represent where it needs to go. for example, senator-elect elizabeth warren. is that an individual who you think embodies where the democratic party needs to be moving? >> no, i do not. i think the democratic party is still pretty much the cult of the personalities that are involved. i think elizabeth warren won in the state of massachusetts simply because she was a better personalit
. >> he tried a little bit until south carolina. it wasn't just the debate. the pathologies of the debate played out through the campaign. so you had senate seats in missouri and indiana that fell to the democrats in part because of republican flubs. we have to go to that core question. what is the democratic party now? is it a party that simply does well when the republicans do badly? is it simply an alternative to the republicans? or is there a there there? that's something that barack...
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and then there's republican senator tim scott of south carolina. today, he became the first african american senator from the south since reconstruction. and new hampshire is the first st
and then there's republican senator tim scott of south carolina. today, he became the first african american senator from the south since reconstruction. and new hampshire is the first st
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. >> i have to say i got back from south carolina and it is quite lovely. he was letting us know that the real fight on our fiscal issue is yet to come. that's awesome. between the bitter feelings in the house and the senate, the strained relationship amongst leaders and the issues on deck for the 113th congress, who is really in position to get what they want? who is totally not in position to get what they want and who will emerge as the new deal makers other than the speaker of the house as we decided in the last segment? take that for us. >> excellent. >> getting down to the substance of this deal, there is a lot of debate on the democratic and the republican side who is a good deal and et cetera, etc. if you are just looking at the merits, it's a good deal for democrats. it extends unemployment and the earned income tax credit and child tax credit. the working class and the working poor in the middle class. we can't judge the long-term impact until we do see what happens in the debt ceiling fight. i think some people's analysis is wrong. i don't think
. >> i have to say i got back from south carolina and it is quite lovely. he was letting us know that the real fight on our fiscal issue is yet to come. that's awesome. between the bitter feelings in the house and the senate, the strained relationship amongst leaders and the issues on deck for the 113th congress, who is really in position to get what they want? who is totally not in position to get what they want and who will emerge as the new deal makers other than the speaker of the...
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how does that play in iowa and south carolina? andrea, we don't have to look far in history to see where some candidates from the northeast have struggled in national gop primaries. rudy giuliani comes to mind. he never fit in in a place like iowa or new hampshire, which demands a certain kind of personal attention. i think it's going to be fascinating to watch christie put on the policy side and also the personal side in terms of what kind of fit he is for a gop primary that is focused on the south and midwest. >> all good stuff. thank you very much, jonathan. >> thanks, andrea. >>> next up, alarming numbers now from noaa. is this our wake-up call on climate change? we've all had those moments. when you lost the thing you can't believe you lost. when what you just bought, just broke. or when you have a little trouble a long way from home... as an american express cardmember you can expect some help. but what you might not expect, is you can get all this with a prepaid card. spends like cash. feels like membership. [ female announ
how does that play in iowa and south carolina? andrea, we don't have to look far in history to see where some candidates from the northeast have struggled in national gop primaries. rudy giuliani comes to mind. he never fit in in a place like iowa or new hampshire, which demands a certain kind of personal attention. i think it's going to be fascinating to watch christie put on the policy side and also the personal side in terms of what kind of fit he is for a gop primary that is focused on the...
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south carolina, alaska, mississippi, pennsylvania and west virginia all ready to take it up. but we must keep our eye on ground zero and the fight for voter rights. ohio. joining me now, ohio state representative, alicia reese, president elect of the ohio legislative black caucus. she helped get the voter intimidation billboards taken down. and she's taking on john houston, ohio's partisan republican, secretary of state who did everything he could to suppress voters. thank you for being here tonight. >> thank you, reverend sharpton. thanks for having me in. as you know, this is nothing new. i grew up in the movement and marched with you several times all the way back to my days when we took on david duke. >> how are you planning on taking on houston and what are your plans? what's the strategy? >> well, the strategy is, number one, we have had some victories on policies. we've had eight lawsuits, we've won a majority of them. he tried to stop early voting on the biggest day of voting on the weekends. we won that fight. and we had thousands that the largest number ever to vote
south carolina, alaska, mississippi, pennsylvania and west virginia all ready to take it up. but we must keep our eye on ground zero and the fight for voter rights. ohio. joining me now, ohio state representative, alicia reese, president elect of the ohio legislative black caucus. she helped get the voter intimidation billboards taken down. and she's taking on john houston, ohio's partisan republican, secretary of state who did everything he could to suppress voters. thank you for being here...
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south carolina governor nikki haley announced the special election to fill soon to be scott's house seat will be may 7th. scott officially resigned from the house yesterday. >>> and finally, school students from sandy hook elementary, they will return to class this morning. it's been nearly a month since a gunman shot and killed 26 very small children and the adults in that school still being treated as a crime scene. so students will go to class at a refurbished school in a neighboring town. police officers have been guarding the sandy hook school and say it is, quote, the safest school in america right now. >>> the opening bell is about to ring on wall street. investors are hoping for another day of triple digit gains. if they get it, it won't be because of the fiscal cliff. the markets are watching new data out this morning from good old adp, reporting that the private sector created, ready for this, 215,000 jobs in december. that's nearly 100,000 more jobs than economists were expecting. the weekly jobless claims rose though, to 372,000. it may have been skewed by the holiday season.
south carolina governor nikki haley announced the special election to fill soon to be scott's house seat will be may 7th. scott officially resigned from the house yesterday. >>> and finally, school students from sandy hook elementary, they will return to class this morning. it's been nearly a month since a gunman shot and killed 26 very small children and the adults in that school still being treated as a crime scene. so students will go to class at a refurbished school in a...
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scott was appointed by south carolina governor nikki haley to take the seat left by tim demint. demint left to run the heritage foundation. scott is the first black republican senator. he will also be the lone african-american in the senate. scott will serve out the remainder of demint's term. we are watching as he takes his seat. historic, although i think for a lot of african-americans, karen, maybe not -- maybe some mixed emotions. >> mixed emotions. it will be interesting to see how senator scott sort of nav gates being the only african-american in the senate, the only republican african-american. i assume he will be far more graceful at it than our friend alan west was at anything. >> indeed. another piece of history being made here. at least if you are in massachusetts. people are, like, oh, it was historic for them and for those that care about the consumer protections that she ushered in. democrat elizabeth warren of massachusetts being sworn in on the senate floor. warren is a former harvard professor. elizabeth warren will sit on the senate banking committee, which is
scott was appointed by south carolina governor nikki haley to take the seat left by tim demint. demint left to run the heritage foundation. scott is the first black republican senator. he will also be the lone african-american in the senate. scott will serve out the remainder of demint's term. we are watching as he takes his seat. historic, although i think for a lot of african-americans, karen, maybe not -- maybe some mixed emotions. >> mixed emotions. it will be interesting to see how...
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carolinas that republicans want to hear from and i think that remains to be seen. >> it certainly would be nice to watch and cover. >> always a pleasure. thanks to you both. >> all a pleasure. >> thanks, craig. >>> we could be days away from the latest shift in the department of defense. coming up, what should we expect? when should we expect if the president doesn't nominate chuck hague toll leave the pentagon. it will be a fight. 40 years after history was made, now a big part of that history is up for sale. more on that. this is msnbc, the place for politics. we were so blessed when we had triplets if by blessed you mean freaked out about money well we suddenly noticed that everything was getting more expensive so we switched to the bargain detergent but i found myself using three times more than you're supposed to and the clothes still weren't as clean as with tide. so we're back to tide. they're cuter in clean clothes. thanks honey yeah you suck at folding [ laughs ] [ female announcer ] one cap of tide gives you more cleaning power than 6 caps of the bargain brand. [ woman ] that'
carolinas that republicans want to hear from and i think that remains to be seen. >> it certainly would be nice to watch and cover. >> always a pleasure. thanks to you both. >> all a pleasure. >> thanks, craig. >>> we could be days away from the latest shift in the department of defense. coming up, what should we expect? when should we expect if the president doesn't nominate chuck hague toll leave the pentagon. it will be a fight. 40 years after history was...
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id an issue and voter id laws will take effect in south carolina this year, as well. the war on women exploded in 2012. this is why we must continue to fight. and this year, for the first time since 1994, the violence against women's act is gone. blocked by an extreme republican congress who let it die without a vote. this year, the billionaire's boy's club, the coke brothers and sheldon adelson spent hundreds of millions of dollars. this is why the fight continues. we didn't fight last year just over an election, we fought over a direction. a direction of fairness, a direction of democracy. the fight continues. happy new year. keep prepared to come to the battlefield. thanks for watching. i'm al sharpton, "hardball starts right now. >> fiscal cliff hangover, let's play "hardball." >>> good evening. i'm michael smerconish in for chris matthews. leading off tonight, did anyone really win in the fiscal cliff standoff? on one hand it marks the end of the reagan revolution. after all republicans voted to raise taxes for the first time in decades. on the other hand, the de
id an issue and voter id laws will take effect in south carolina this year, as well. the war on women exploded in 2012. this is why we must continue to fight. and this year, for the first time since 1994, the violence against women's act is gone. blocked by an extreme republican congress who let it die without a vote. this year, the billionaire's boy's club, the coke brothers and sheldon adelson spent hundreds of millions of dollars. this is why the fight continues. we didn't fight last year...
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. >>> former south carolina governor mark sanford makes it official today, that he's running for congress. sanford made national headlines, of course, when he disappeared for several days, supposedly on the appalachian trail. later admitted it was because he was having an affair in argentina. he's seeking the the seat vacated by tom scott. sanford's ex-wife, jenny, who governor haley also had on her short list of possible employees, told reporters she would not run for the house seat. here's why. >> the idea of killing myself to run for a seat for the privilege of serving in a dysfunctional body under john boehner whiff an eighth grader at home just really doesn't make sense to me. >> so there you have it. doesn't want to be hanging out with john boehner, okay. >>> next, the president and putin. how significant of a road block will russia be during the president's second term? we're going to do a little deep dive as we've been doing all week on the challenges ahead for the president's second term. today, the focus on foreign policy. and speaking of foreign policy, one of the first america
. >>> former south carolina governor mark sanford makes it official today, that he's running for congress. sanford made national headlines, of course, when he disappeared for several days, supposedly on the appalachian trail. later admitted it was because he was having an affair in argentina. he's seeking the the seat vacated by tom scott. sanford's ex-wife, jenny, who governor haley also had on her short list of possible employees, told reporters she would not run for the house seat....
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and that's what south carolina governor nikki haley did when she got the profound di undemocratic power to appoint someone to a senate seat in her state. she picked congressman tim scott, who intends to run to keep that seat. run governor taking maximum advantage of her chance to put her individual thumb on the scale of democracy, and one governor refusing to do that. staying neutral before the will of the voters. this kind of thing is a test of political character, i've always thought. just ask rod blagojevich when he gets out of prison. in any case, the election to pick a full-time nonplace holder replacement for john kerry in the senate now has a date. it will be on june 25th in massachusetts. but massachusetts may find itself voting on that seat before then. and that's because we're told to expect that tomorrow conservative democratic congressman stephen lynch, who you see on the right side of the screen there, who voted against obama care and who is anti-abortion, stephen lynch is going to announce that he too is going to run for the seat as a democratic against the already declare
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. >> south carolina senator lindsey graham said he could put a hold on cia nominee john brennan's nomination until the white house addresses questions about benghazi again. quote -- i do not believe we should confirm anyone as director of the cia until our questions are answered, like who changed ambassador susan rice's talking points and deleted the references to al qaeda. my support for a delaying confirmation is not directed at mr. brennan but is an unfortunate yet necessary action to get information from this administration. the white house is trying to sell, meanwhile, back on hagel, trying to sell hagel's personal story. and no one may tell that better than his brother, tom, who served alongside him in vietnam and described to nbc how they narrowly escaped death together. >> the concussion was incredible. it knocked us both down. and he was behind me and i looked back and he was flat on his back, blood all over his chest. so i went back. things come up where he's being criticized for this or that or the other thing, or we're both having problem. we look at each other and say, you know,
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carolina. she has a tough re-election fight on her hands. there's a whole handful of others. >> and again, here's a good example. you look at the president's three priorities that he laid out at the inauguration. in his inaugural speech. climate change. kay hagen, even though this is critically important for democrats and progressives and some republicans, kay hagen can't take that back to north carolina and campaign hard on that in the next two years any more than she can on gay marriage, national gay marriage issue. that will work in a lot of states. as we were saying yesterday, progress is on the march in this area. a lot of democrats believe. but that march hasn't gone through north carolina yet. and the same thing with gun control, an issue that certainly assault weapon control matters a lot to me. but in north carolina statewide, you almost feel like a republican could push that bettbet er than a democrat. >> no question. >> a democrat, it feeds into all of people's worst suspicion about
carolina. she has a tough re-election fight on her hands. there's a whole handful of others. >> and again, here's a good example. you look at the president's three priorities that he laid out at the inauguration. in his inaugural speech. climate change. kay hagen, even though this is critically important for democrats and progressives and some republicans, kay hagen can't take that back to north carolina and campaign hard on that in the next two years any more than she can on gay...
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into the carolinas and out west is going to get in on some of the milder temperatures. as for snowfall today, we have blizzard warnings posted across portions of the dakotas. because of the snow on the ground getting blown around. that's going to create some lower visibilities. we have lighter snow across northeastern minnesota. that will start to work into western michigan later on today and tomorrow. and also some lighter snow showers across central and northern new england. for today, not too much going on. we are going to be in the 40s in washington, d.c., upper 40s. that will be pretty nice. 56 for a high today in kansas city. and an early look at your inauguration forecast on monday. it's actually going to cool down quite a bit. 34 degrees. mix of sun and clouds. not a lot of snow but we will see some flurries. winds should lighten up, about 5 to 10-mile-per-hour winds should help ease the windchill. but pretty chilly heading into monday. >> thank you for the heads-up. appreciate it. >>> in strategy talk, making good on presidential promises. how the president per
into the carolinas and out west is going to get in on some of the milder temperatures. as for snowfall today, we have blizzard warnings posted across portions of the dakotas. because of the snow on the ground getting blown around. that's going to create some lower visibilities. we have lighter snow across northeastern minnesota. that will start to work into western michigan later on today and tomorrow. and also some lighter snow showers across central and northern new england. for today, not...
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a lot of these folks represent conservative gun-friendly states, places like north carolina, south dakota, and they could be put in a real tough spot if he goes out and campaigns around the country calling for an assault weapons ban. so you know, they may push for it but they may not get it but even if you don't get the assault weapons ban most killings aren't done with assault weapons. they're done with pistols. obviously, a handgun ban is off the table, but the background checks might be able to help with that. the notion of background checks and the expanded ammunition clips, limiting the size of those, is a lot more popular in opinion polls than an assault weapon ban. >> all right, you guys, we've got to talk about hurricane sandy, the relief rather because we know that coming up on tuesday the 15th the house is going to consider this $50 billion plus bill. the fact is that there are a lot of protests out this weekend. folks that are affected by sandy are saying look how the government handled katrina and let's compare that to what's happening now with us. let's listen to some of thes
a lot of these folks represent conservative gun-friendly states, places like north carolina, south dakota, and they could be put in a real tough spot if he goes out and campaigns around the country calling for an assault weapons ban. so you know, they may push for it but they may not get it but even if you don't get the assault weapons ban most killings aren't done with assault weapons. they're done with pistols. obviously, a handgun ban is off the table, but the background checks might be able...
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carolina. but otherwise, it's a very quiet weather day across the country. and the big question, is this the coldest week of winter. and it looks like we're going to have a significant warmup across the country come next week at this time. so if you've been really complaining about the bitter cold, things will begin to improve. a little bit of light rain showers in orlando. but overall, much of the country very cold, and also looking very dry. you're watching "morning joe." we're brewed by starbucks. [ male announcer ] where do you turn for legal matters? maybe you want to incorporate a business. or protect your family with a will or living trust. and you'd like the help of an attorney. at legalzoom a legal plan attorney is available in most states with every personalized document to answer questions. get started at legalzoom.com today. and now you're protected. get started at legalzoom.com today. i've always kept my eye on her... but with so much health care noise, i didn't always watch out fo
carolina. but otherwise, it's a very quiet weather day across the country. and the big question, is this the coldest week of winter. and it looks like we're going to have a significant warmup across the country come next week at this time. so if you've been really complaining about the bitter cold, things will begin to improve. a little bit of light rain showers in orlando. but overall, much of the country very cold, and also looking very dry. you're watching "morning joe." we're...
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, south carolina where you buy guns, load up the trunk, come back and sell them on the street. talk about this issue. >> and the vast majority of them, you're absolutely right, they're illegal guns. when you look at the amount of homici homicides, the amount of people, children being maimed all throughout cities like baltimore, philadelphia, et cetera, these aren't necessarily being done by registered gun owners. these are done by the fact that someone can walk down the street and get a gun easier than they can getting health care. and so you have this proliferation of guns that exists in cities like mine, in cities like all over the country that we also have to be able to address because fact is, even if we went and just banned assault weapons, even if we said okay bushmasters are no longer allowed, that's not going to affect the larger homicide rate of what we're seeing in so many cities because these are handguns and illegal handguns. i absolutely agree, the federal legislation federal mike needs to be put behind this and i believe it will. in fact, i think the vice presiden
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as we go into tuesday night and wednesday, it heads through the deep south. so everyone from texas to florida up to the carolinas, severe weather heading your way, maybe damaging winds and the possibility of tornadoes. i should be talking about winter storms this time of year, not this junk but we'll deal with it this week. washington, d.c. didn't see much snow. watch out for the freezing rain just north of the city. you're watching "morning joe" by starbucks. ♪ dreaming is free, dreaming is free ♪ i'm jennifer hudson. the reason i'm still in this body feelin' so good isn't because i never go out and enjoy the extra large, extra cheese world we live in. it's because i do. introducing the new weight watchers 360 program. join for free and expect amazing. because it works. >>> this past monday millions of americans watched as barack obama took the oath of office for a second term as president of the united states of america. and this coming monday, the party really starts! >> hey, everybody, it's me, your vp joe biden and i'm inviting you all to join me thi
as we go into tuesday night and wednesday, it heads through the deep south. so everyone from texas to florida up to the carolinas, severe weather heading your way, maybe damaging winds and the possibility of tornadoes. i should be talking about winter storms this time of year, not this junk but we'll deal with it this week. washington, d.c. didn't see much snow. watch out for the freezing rain just north of the city. you're watching "morning joe" by starbucks. ♪ dreaming is free,...